Rabbits, Roosters

May 14, 1986

THE SENATE DEFEATED a proposal Tuesday to repeal Florida's ban on using jackrabbits as live bait in greyhound training. Sen. Bill Grant, D-Madison, offered the repeal as an amendment to a bill (SB 327) that would ban cock fighting. The Florida Poultry Federation had pushed the measure out of fear that fighting cocks, which often are imported from overseas, may transmit disease to the state's $230 million poultry stock.